Investor suitability standards requiring independent verification of an investor's ability to evaluate complex financial products and investment risk would make wealth redundant as a proxy for sophistication in determining investor eligibility.
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Such proposed investor suitability standards would require independent verification of investors' ability to evaluate highly complex financial products and investment risk, rendering wealth as a proxy for sophistication redundant for investor eligibility.54
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Wulf A. Kaal, Private Investment Fund Regulation - Theory and Empirical Evidence from 1998 to 2016 (2017), III.2 Indirect Regulation, p. 15 https://ssrn.com/abstract=2998097 · source PDF
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Wulf A. Kaal, Private Investment Fund Regulation - Theory and Empirical Evidence from 1998 to 2016 (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2998097
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private investment fund investor eligibility
proposed in 2009, before Title IV
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